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fukawi2

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Pacman Vs. Other Package Managers

Having some friends starting to use Arch after being used to Ubuntu / Fedora and one of the biggest questions seems to have been the equivalent commands for pacman compared to apt-get or yum etc

So, I started a wiki page - hopefully it might be of use to others too. I've only made a basic start - if you can think of anything else, or have experience with Gentoo or Slackware, please expand it
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pac … e_Managers

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u_no_hu

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Re: Pacman Vs. Other Package Managers

if you can think of it ... chance is that it already exists .......  ;-)
The pacman Rosetta http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacman_rosetta

I hope this is what you were trying to do

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alessandro_ufms

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Re: Pacman Vs. Other Package Managers

I've seen something like this some weeks ago, and I found:

Linux package management cheatsheet part 1: http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20080922
Linux package management cheatsheet part 2: http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20080929
Linux package management cheatsheet part 3: http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20081013
Linux package management cheatsheet part 4: http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20081020

fukawi2

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Re: Pacman Vs. Other Package Managers

if you can think of it ... chance is that it already exists .......  ;-)
The pacman Rosetta http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacman_rosetta

I hope this is what you were trying to do

Oh well poo. I don't know what "rosetta" means. I'd never have thought to look for that

How do we delete a wiki page?

Perhaps the "rosetta" page should be renamed?

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u_no_hu

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Re: Pacman Vs. Other Package Managers

Dont delete, just redirect to that page.

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Re: Pacman Vs. Other Package Managers

this used to be a good source. not sure why the gentoo wiki removed it and archived it though.
http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/TIP_Convert … _to_Debian

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xaiviax

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Re: Pacman Vs. Other Package Managers

this used to be a good source. not sure why the gentoo wiki removed it and archived it though.
http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/TIP_Convert … _to_Debian

The gentoo wiki was completely lost recently when there hosting server went out of business, no backups.  They have since rebuilt the archive with google caches and such, pretty sad actually.  It was one of the best linux wiki's for everything.

fukawi2

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Re: Pacman Vs. Other Package Managers

Dont delete, just redirect to that page.

How to do...?

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Re: Pacman Vs. Other Package Managers

this used to be a good source. not sure why the gentoo wiki removed it and archived it though.
http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/TIP_Convert … _to_Debian

The gentoo wiki was completely lost recently when there hosting server went out of business, no backups.  They have since rebuilt the archive with google caches and such, pretty sad actually.  It was one of the best linux wiki's for everything.

That is indeed very sad to hear..

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kludge

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Re: Pacman Vs. Other Package Managers

Oh well poo. I don't know what "rosetta" means. I'd never have thought to look for that

wikipedia entry for 'rosetta stone'

but yr right, it's not the most obvious name for the page.

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Hrod beraht

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Re: Pacman Vs. Other Package Managers

Dont delete, just redirect to that page.

How to do...?

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Re: Pacman Vs. Other Package Managers

The gentoo wiki was completely lost recently when there hosting server went out of business, no backups.

Does anyone know if Archlinux has backups?

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